Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Allow drc indexes to be specified in formats other than decimal

From: Sergei Shtylyov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:18:23 +0400

Hello.

Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> Allow the drc index passed to the /proc/ppc64/ofdt file to be specified
> in formats other than decimal.  This allows us to easily specify drc 
> indexes
> in hex that would otherwise appears as negative integers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <[email-masked]>
> ---
>
> Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.git.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c    
> 2008-06-03 16:29:04.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6.git/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c    
> 2008-06-19 22:03:12.000000000 -0500
> @@ -365,7 +365,7 @@
>      *buf = '\0';
>      buf++;
>
> -    handle = simple_strtoul(handle_str, NULL, 10);
> +    handle = simple_strtoul(handle_str, NULL, 0);

   I guess checkpatch.pl told you to consider switching to 
strict_strtol()? :-)

WBR, Sergei